Irina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Irina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name. In Russian, recorded as "peace".
- LVLatvia1 in 124(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 44as Ирина
- BYBelarus≈1 in 47as Ирина
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Irina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #21 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 602 (measured from records)
- 1 in 73 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200,000 named Ирина, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ирина in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China, Ірина in UA Ukraine, Erin in US United States and אירינה in LV Latvia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Slavic form of Irène, from Greek Eirēnē, 'peace'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Irina is read(measured from records)
Irina is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Russian46%
"peace."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
- English15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Irina in English.
- Spanish8.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Irina in Spanish.
- German6.0%
weibl. Vom., russische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Irina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #10 | ≈3,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 44 | #12 | Ирина | 297 |
| UA Ukraine | #13 | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 58 | listed | Ірина | 181 |
| CN China | — | ≈660,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Ирина | 54 |
| US United States | #185 | 301,437as Erin | 1 in 1.1K | 294K | Erin | 602 |
| BY Belarus | #8 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 47 | 16 | Ирина | 73 |
| MD Moldova | #50 | 46,403 | 1 in 73 | 46K | Irina | 61 |
| LV Latvia | #15 | 15,155 | 1 in 124 | 15K | אירינה | 80 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Irina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Slavic form of Irène, from Greek Eirēnē, 'peace'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Swedish, Irina är en rysk form av → Irene.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Forme apparentée à Irène, du grec eirênê, « paix ». Fête/saint non indiqué.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Russian form of IRENE , one of the commonest of all female names in the Soviet Union. Variant: Arina (much less common). Pet form: Orya .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Irène Némirovskyb. 1903FRnot in their usual nameFrench novelist (1903–1942)
- Irina Skobtsevab. 1927RUSoviet and Russian actress (1927-2020)
- Irina Pressb. 1939UASoviet athlete (1939-2004)
- Irina Bokovab. 1952BGBulgarian diplomat
- Irina Allegrovab. 1952RURussian singer
- Irina Rozanovab. 1961RUSoviet and Russian actress
- Iryna Farionb. 1964UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian linguist and politician (1964–2024)
- Iryna Vereshchukb. 1979UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian politician
- Irina Shaykb. 1986RURussian model and television personality (born 1986)
- Irina-Camelia Begub. 1990RORomanian female tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 97 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 46K | #19 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23K | #1,452 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 15K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 15K | #12 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 127 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23 | #1,452 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Irina mean?
- In Russian, "peace."
- Where does the name Irina come from?
- Slavic form of Irène, from Greek Eirēnē, 'peace'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- In which country does Irina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 million people named Ирина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Irina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Irina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 73 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Irina a male or female name?
- Irina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Irina?
- In the etymology graph, Irene, Iryna and Irena are forms of the same name in other languages; Ira, Arja and Arisha are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Irina?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 46,403 people named Irina, about 1 in 73 residents.
- How common is Irina compared with other names?
- In Russia, Irina is the 10th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Irina” — the 10th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.